rain

Rainy season has begun in earnest this week. Tuesday and Wednesday it rained all morning. Things shut down here in the rain. I think at the public schools at least many do not come in the rain. At Ebenezer they just arrive slower. There is no electricity at the school which has its advantages and disadvantages. There are power cuts here often and I think that it would be very distracting in class to have lights on and then suddenly off with no warning. The windows are all along the sides of the room so on sunny days there is plenty of light. On rainy days (often when power cuts occur) it is dark inside. But we go on. This week we have transformed the room into learning centers (as previously mentioned) and the kids seem to enjoy it and are doing pretty well with the change. With the rain though we weren’t able to send them out for their break/recess time and that is a problem. There is only so much you can do in one room and there is nowhere else to take them for a change of scenery…the noise level just kept getting higher and higher…and all the noise just bounces off the concrete floors, walls and ceiling. Dorothy and I couldn’t really hear a thing by the end of Tuesday. Wednesday was better but then more rain through half of break so they had to come in early and I lost Dorothy because the first grade teacher didn’t feel well. Chaos reigned for the last hour.